A New Zealand literacy program is helping to raise Indigenous achievement to mainstream levels.

Despite the Treaty of Waitangi, acts by both the British Crown and successive New Zealand governments have had detrimental effects on the Māori population.
AAP Image/SNPA Pool, David RowlandMay 11, 2016

Much is made of the Treaty of Waitangi as the vehicle for the recognition of Maori in New Zealand’s legal system. Australia lacks a treaty, the argument goes, and therefore is constitutionally disabled…

Maori academics in New Zealand should be wary of talking to the non-Maori media.
Flickr/geoftherefFebruary 6, 2012

Maybe it’s the lot of academics to be misrepresented, but when a single incident can nearly get you sacked it makes you reconsider whether to deal with the media at all. Last year, comments of mine about…

New Zealand is celebrating the All Blacks’ victory over France in the Rugby World Cup. Over the course of the tournament The Conversation has brought you stories about all aspects of the game. And with…

RUGBY WORLD CUP – In the first of The Conversation’s series on the Rugby World Cup, Massey University‘s Malcolm Mulholland argues for the continuation of a Maori only rugby team. Around half of the All…

Indigenous difference has been “recognised” in the public law and policy of the western settler states of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States since the earliest days of colonial government…